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I'm still reading for winter, issue 7.4. So far, we've got art with humorous twists and we're contemplating snakes, bonsai, pistachios and possums. A quirky and eclectic mix. I'm sure you have something polished and interesting; send it along!  http://star82review.com/submissions.html

Every year, as an editor, I have a chance to nominate work to other presses. Orison Books , which describes itself as "a literary press, focused on the life of the spirit from a broad range of perspectives," puts out a call to editors for works that have a "transcendent effect" and "leads the reader into profound contemplation." I feel this way about nearly all the works that are featured in Star 82 Review , so, as usual, it's a hard call. Here are the nominations, from 2019, for the 2020 Orison Anthology. From 7.1 " Still, it's gone " by Simon Perchik " Timbrel Flowers " by Yoram Naslavsky, translated by Anthony Berris From 7.3 " Why We Sing " by Oak Morse " Time Over " by Nicholas DelloRusso Good luck to all!

The new Star 82 Review 7.3 issue holds up different lenses to the world, showing how each of our experiences helps shape us and see things in various ways. We have a poem about roping cows, one about dresses with pockets, an ode to a park, and reflections on regret, children, grandparents, and shared struggles, among others. The things that make us human. 7.3 online is here . 7.3 print version may be ordered from Lulu  here . (There is also a link to it at the foot of the online page.) Thank you to all the contributors and thanks for reading! Contributors 7.3 Dan Alter Robert Beveridge Dmitry Blizniuk Roger Camp Martha Christina Genevieve Creedon William Cullen Jr. Susan Dashiell Nicholas DelloRusso Maggie Dove S. Preston Duncan Jodie Filan Robert Funderburk Sergey Gerasimov Carmen Gordon-Rein Nels Hanson Tracy Ann Johnson Toshiya Kamei Sarah Kobrinsky Elaine Mead Catfish McDaris Oak Morse Karen Neuberg Deonte Osayande Leland Seese Natsumi Tan...

As always, Contributors, whether you were nominated or not, I love all of your work. Here are the six poems, two fictions, two creative nonfictions nominated by *82 for 2018-19 Best of the Net, Sundress Publications . Good luck to everyone! POETRY Fall 6.3 Thinning Beets by Martha Christina http://www.star82review.com/6.3/christina-beets.html Fall 6.3 Flip it on the Solstice and rotate on the Equinox by Kali Lightfoot http://www.star82review.com/6.3/lightfoot-flip.html Winter 6.4 Stanley by Gale Acuff http://www.star82review.com/6.4/acuff-stanley.html Spring 7.1 Plane after plane by Simon Perchik http://www.star82review.com/7.1/perchik-plane.html Summer 7.2 Borders and Boundaries by Carol Dorf http://www.star82review.com/7.2/dorf-borders.html Summer 7.2 Gardening by Sarah Shapiro http://star82review.com/7.2/shapiro-gardening.html FICTION Fall 6.3 The Angels’ Day Job by Ona SIporin http://www.star82review.com/6.3/siporin-angels.html Fall ...

This is the twenty-seventh poem created from either the first two or last two words from each written piece in an upcoming issue of Star 82 Review . I am told that this type of collage poem, that merges words from several writers, has an actual name, a " Cento ," Latin for "patchwork." Here is the poem that unites the community of writers that will appear in issue 7.3, upcoming mid-September or so. Look over a straw person’s day The new night outside has pockets of wind to dance Over untended eggs, cooling we sung to help at all been reading Big angels can beget from perfect ghosted companion The call to life be together just be This was nice even Old West court martial We thought wrong before I leave your feet platters filled

As an editor, I am allowed to nominate one flash fiction each year to submit for consideration for the VERAs, the award from Vestal Review . Star 82 Review 's nomination for work from 2018 (issues 6.1 - 6.4) is Ona Siporin's "The Angels' Day Job."  I just received news that it is a semi-finalist and will be forwarded to the finals. Good luck to Ona! You can read her short piece in issue 6.3 here . Previously, Gen Del Ray's story " Tough " was a finalist for the VERAs from issue 4.1 (2016).